Custom MX and A Records

Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are typically regarded as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new company can have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux website hosting which we offer, allows you to see, modify and create A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you are going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is incredibly easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are handled by using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record will be as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not encounter any issues if you wish to point your website or e-mails to an alternative provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you could also create additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.